JEWELL, FRED

Frederick Alton Jewell was a remarkable musician whose quiet and reserved nature would not allow him to publicize his own achievements. He expressed what he deemed important through his band scores, his conducting baton, and his euphonium and cornet. Jewell was born in 1875 in Worthington, Indiana, where his father, Dudley Jewell —an itinerant singing teacher—had settled several years before. Much of the entertainment at that time was provided by traveling and local bands of every size and...